“The European Commission is delighted to contribute through FEDORA and its Creative Europe programme to a pioneering pilot project to facilitate cross-border giving and boost philanthropy in Europe. The new online Harnessing the digital shift to launch Transnational Giving Platform will be important to shape the European approach to philanthropy. We are pleased Europe’s first online cross-border giving that this private-public interdisciplinary digital project, co-developed by Transnational Giving Europe in platform boosting European philanthropy collaboration with FEDORA and Common Goal (representing the cultural and sports sectors) is likely to benefit in the Europe’s first long term the entire European non-profit sector. Solidarity and generosity should not be hindered by borders, On June 29th, 2020, FEDORA is pleased to introduce the new online especially in today’s challenging times.” online Transnational Giving Europe Platform, built by the Transnational Barbara Gessler Giving Europe Network, to facilitate philanthropy across Europe. This Head of Unit, Creative Europe, General Direction for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission Transnational solution is made available on the occasion of the launch of the fundraising campaigns of the nominees of the FEDORA Prizes 2020. “In a quickly changing world and with raising uncertainties, the first online Transnational Giving Europe Platform, Giving Platform built by the Transnational Giving Europe Network, offers added value for donations. This project puts a digital tool at The platform aims at simplifying the process of European online the service of the pure human need to give to causes close to one’s heart. With this new online giving solution, we Press release cross-border donations through a digital user-friendly experience, bridge the gap between European donors and the non-profit sector and move one step closer to a single European allowing individuals and companies to make donations to causes market for philanthropy. Doing good has never been easier, so let us unlock the full potential of generosity across June 2020 and organisations of their choice across Europe while benefiting Europe together!” from tax deductions in their country of residence in a secured legal Cvjetana Plavsa-Matic and fiscal framework. Chairwoman of Transnational Giving Europe “This European initiative harnesses the digital shift and unites us all in the support of artists across borders. Together, AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PIONEERING PILOT PROJECT we can unlock the full potential of creativity in the interdisciplinary fields of opera and dance through innovative collaborative projects that engage our hearts and minds. As a non-profit cultural organization, FEDORA is honored This initiative is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, and the Swiss Philanthropy to pioneer this new online giving solution which transforms the way donors can support and establish ties with Foundation in Geneva, with the support of the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels, and is powered by iRaiser, artistic projects around Europe.” a leading expert in Europe for digital fundraising solutions for non-profit organisations. Jérôme-François Zieseniss President of FEDORA Two organisations have participated in the development of this system and will also be the first non-profit organisations in Europe to use this new online donation platform: FEDORA, the European Platform supporting “Common Goal is a proud supporter of the Transnational Giving Europe Platform initiative and excited for its launch. innovation and intercultural dialogue in the fields of opera and ballet, and Common Goal, a philanthropic The platform will transform an integral part of our operations as we can now offer a more efficient way for our movement that encourages professional football players, managers and businesses to pledge a minimum of members to make tax deductible donations. This digital solution will help us direct more resources into focusing on one percent of their earnings to sports-based non-profit organisations that advance the United Nations our purpose - to unite the global football community in supporting charitable initiatives that help drive progress Sustainable Development Goals. towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.” Thomas Preiss How does Transnational Giving Europe work? www.transnationalgiving.eu/how-does-it-work Co-Founder of Common Goal
Individual and corporate residents from the following countries can benefit from national tax deductions on “As a UK-based donor since 2017, this digital solution will make donating to Common Goal much easier and faster. their donations thanks to the collaboration with Transnational Giving Europe’s national partner foundations: I definitely see this tool aiding in making philanthropy more efficient and inclusive across Europe and the UK.” Juan Mata Austria - Philanthropie Stiftung Österreich Manchester United Midfielder and Common Goal Member Belgium - King Baudouin Foundation Bulgaria - BCause “We believe in collaborations and in promoting philanthropy. The creation of a digital donation platform on a Croatia - European Foundation for Philanthropy and Society Development European scale is an essential milestone to facilitate access to philanthropy and promote cross-border generosity France - Fondation de France between donors and beneficiary organisations, while meeting the highest requirements of good governance. Germany - Maecenata Stiftung Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is proud to support this project carried by the Transational Giving Europe network, in Greece - Higher Incubator Giving Growth & Sustainability - HIGGS collaboration with FEDORA and Common Goal.” Hungary - Carpathian Foundation Hungary Sabrina Grassi Italy - Fondazione Lang Europe Onlus Director General of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation Romania - Odorheiu Secuiesc Community Foundation Spain - Empresa y Sociedad Fundación “As coordinator of the Transnational Giving Europe Network, the King Baudouin Foundation is pleased to introduce Switzerland - Swiss Philanthropy Foundation this innovative digital solution that will finally facilitate cross-border generosity in Europe. Now, more than ever, United Kingdom - Charities Aid Foundation European philanthropy will be able to play its complementary role to public action. Many European donors will be able to use this platform to support projects of general interest in most European countries under the best NEED FOR ONE SINGLE MARKET OF PHILANTHROPY IN EUROPE conditions.” Ludwig Forrest Cross-border giving is subject to many constraints. Donors are not enabled yet to support online non-profit Head of International Philanthropy of King Baudouin Foundation organisations close to their heart on a European level. National fiscal regulations vary from country to country and the absence of uniformity induces slow processes of donations. In collaboration with other actors, Pioneering Partners Transnational Giving Europe advocates for a single market of philanthropy in Europe with high standards of good governance.
By 2021, the pilot version of the online Transnational Giving Europe Platform will be scaled up to include a large number of European countries and as many beneficiaries as possible, the goal is tomake this solution accessible to the entire European non-profit sector by enabling any non-profit organisation to raise funds across Europe. Pioneering Supporters
CONTACTS FEDORA Common Goal King Baudouin Foundation Transnational Giving Europe Swiss Philanthropy Foundation Edilia Gänz, Director, [email protected] Thomas Preiss, Co-Founder [email protected] Ludwig Forrest, Head of Anne-Laure Paquot Aïssata Traoré Mary-Éthel Siméonidès, Press Relations, Ben Miller, Media Relations International Philanthropy Network Manager Project Coordinator [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] + 33 (0) 1 42 89 59 85 / + 33 (0) 6 08 71 91 66 +34 (0) 661 33 62 41 + 32 (0) 2 549 02 38 + 32 (0) 2 549 61 61 +41 (0) 22 732 55 54 www.fedora-platform.com www.common-goal.org www.kbs-frb.be www.transnationalgiving.eu www.swissphilanthropy.ch JURY NOMINEES* UPLOAD Dutch National Opera (Netherlands) Bregenzer Festspiele (Austria), DoubleA (Netherlands), Ensemble Musikfabrik (Germany), Opera Cologne (Germany), Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory (United States)
Composer, Director, Librettist and Film Director: Michel van der Aa S Scenographer and lightning designer: Theun Mosk What if our minds could live forever? Through Upload, composer, director and librettist Michel van der Aa tells the story of a father, who suffers from a severe trauma, and a daughter. Upload will tell its story through live action, motion- capture and immersive film.
ABOUT WOMAN AT POINT ZERO LOD Muziektheater (Belgium) The FEDORA Opera Prize is awarded to cutting-edge opera creations created by Concertgebouw Brugge (Belgium), DeSingel (Belgium), Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (France), promising teams of emerging artists with the ambition to reach international Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium), Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Belgium), Royal Opera House audiences. (United Kingdom), Shubbak Festival (United Kingdom), Snape Maltings (United Kingdom) Composer: Bushra El-Turk Librettist: Stacy Hardy Stage Director: Laila Soliman Video Artist: Aida Elkashef Scenographer: Bissane Al Charifv
JURY Woman at Point Zero is a new opera based on the classic 1975 novel by the Egyptian writer Nawal El Sadaawi. From this universal story of exploitation, erasure and the Pierre Audi Laura Berman Sophie de Lint Kasper Holten search for freedom, composer Bushra El-Turk, director Laila Soliman, writer Stacy Managing Director Intendant Director CEO Hardy and filmmaker Aida Elkashef create a new multimedia production that weaves together diverse creative visions and challenges conventions. Opera as a Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Staatsoper Hannover Dutch National Opera Royal Danish Theatre powerful voice for a new wave of feminism without borders. (France) (Germany) (Netherlands) (Denmark) THE LISTENERS Norwegian National Opera & Ballet (Norway) Joan Matabosch Nicholas Payne Caroline Sonrier Birgitta Svendén Opera Philadelphia (United States) Artistic Director Director Director General and Artistic Composer: Missy Mazzoli Teatro Real Opera Europa Opéra de Lille Director Librettist: Royce Vavkrek (Spain) (Belgium/UK) (France) Royal Swedish Opera Conductor: Ilan Volkov Chair of the jury (Sweden) Director: Liliana Blain-Cruz Set designer: Adam Rigg Costume designer: Kaye Voyce Lighting designer: Yi Zhao
The Listeners is a new opera from composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek based on an original story by Jordan Tannahill and inspired by the phenomenon known as The Hum, a high-frequency environmental noise that only a select few people, “the Listeners”, can hear. It is an opera about our desperate With the support of In collaboration with desire to belong, our search for community and meaning, and the power of charismatic leaders who exploit these desires. *(in alphabetical order of lead company) PUBLIC NOMINEE FLUX MASCHINN (Luxembourg) Triadic (United States)
Artistic Directors: Mafalda Millies and Roya Sachs Composer: Joel Baldwin Costume Designer: Olivia Schuler-Voith Librettist: Clemente Ciarrocca
FLUX is a non-linear opera combining art, music, nature and technology. The piece explores the emotional and physical quality of vocal sounds following an abstract narrative delivered only in vowels. Set in the iconic 17th century Steintheater in Salzburg, FLUX uses the forest-hidden oasis as a 360 degree multi- sensory canvas to depict a universal journey of human passion. JURY NOMINEES*
PLANET [WANDERER] Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse (France) Festspielhaus St. Pölten (Austria), Sadler’s Wells Theatre (United Kingdom), Théâtre National de Bretagne (France), Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Japan), Rohm Theater Kyoto (Japan), National Performing Arts Center - National Theater & Concert Hall (Taiwan)
S Choreographer: Damien Jalet Set Designer: Kohei Nawa
Choreographer Damien Jalet and sculptor Kohei Nawa merge their practices in order to create Planet [wanderer] a work that sets in motion the visceral and tragic love tale between humans and the planet they are bound to. ABOUT
The FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet is awarded to innovative ballet creations created by promising teams of emerging artists with the ambition to LIGHT BACH DANCES (working title) reach international audiences. Hofesh Shechter Company (United Kingdom)
Co-Directors: John Fulljames and Hofesh Shechter Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen Set and Costume Designer: Tom Scutt Lighting Designer: Paule Constable JURY Bach’s cantatas, Hofesh Shechter’s profoundly affecting choreography and audio testimony of people facing death come together in a moving, thought-provoking Eleonora Abbagnato Ted Brandsen Sharon Eyal Laurent Hilaire and life-affirming dance, music and theatre piece. Only by dancing in the abyss Director Director Choreographer Director can we celebrate the LIGHT. Balletto del Teatro Dutch National Ballet L-E-V Dance Company Stanislavsky Ballet dell’Opera di Roma (Italy) (Netherlands) (Israel) (Russia)
Nicolas Le Riche Johannes Öhman Madeleine Onne Nicholas Payne TRAPLORD Sadler’s Wells (United Kingdom) Artistic Director Director Artistic Director Director Manchester International Festival (United Kingdom) Royal Swedish Ballet Staatsballett Berlin Finnish National Ballet Opera Europa (Sweden) (Germany) (Finland) (Belgium/UK) Artistic Director: Ivan Blackstock Chair of the jury Artist and choreographer Ivan Blackstock, driven by frustration at the stereotyping of black men in contemporary society, developed this piece to explore current Helen Shute themes from police brutality to gang culture, while using a raw and confrontational Chief Executive/ style of dance. Executive Producer Rambert (UK) *(in alphabetical order of lead company)
PUBLIC NOMINEE With the support of In collaboration with BIS.N.S (as usual) Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon (France) La Batie, Festival de Genève (Switzerland), Belgrade Dance Festival (Serbia), Tanz im August Internationales Festival Berlin (Germany), Theater Freiburg (Germany)
Choreographer: Ioannis Mandafounis
Inspired by the «Bis» of Nina Simone’s concert at Montreux Jazz Festival in 1979, choreographer Ioannis Mandafounis will continue his search for a dialogue between intimacy and public space, a fragile border between the backstage and the stage. JURY NOMINEES*
GOING FOR GOLD Birmingham Opera Company (United Kingdom) Arts Connect (United Kingdom), Birmingham City Council (United Kingdom), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (United Kingdom), Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (United Kingdom)
S Artistic Director: Graham Vick CBE Music Director: Alpesh Chauhan Artistic Associate: Reisz Amos
Inspiring 8,000 local people with 100 free events and supporting 50 diverse emerging artists with unparalleled professional development opportunities in Europe’s youngest, most diverse city. It culminates in a disused factory, with ABOUT volunteer performers alongside a stellar international cast and the full CBSO, in a ground-breaking production of Wagner’s RhineGold (Das Rheingold) directed by The FEDORA Education Prize is awarded to innovative projects in the fields of opera Graham Vick CBE. and ballet encouraging the involvement of new and wider audiences while fostering social integration and intercultural dialogue amongst the participants. EDUOPERA FOR SPECIAL YOU(TH) Stara Zagora State Opera (Bulgaria) International youth center for work with children and youth at risk (IYC) Stara Zagora (Bulgaria), National Association of Resource Teachers (Bulgaria)
Conductor: Victor Krumov Stage Director: Uschi Horner JURY Education Specialist: Zdravko Tenev Psychologist: Milena Minkova Set Designer: Denis Ivanov Bernard Foccroulle Renate Futterknecht Hannah Griffiths Rhian Hutchings Former Director Head of Administration/ General Manager Chair For the first time in Bulgaria, this project aims to encourage the social inclusion of La Monnaie and Festival Deputy General Artistic Birmingham Opera RESEO (Belgium/ young people with special educational needs through music, dance and opera. d’Aix-en-Provence (France) Director Company (UK) UK) Chair of the jury Theater an der Wien (Austria) BLUE WATER / CIVICOPERA Teatro Sociale di Como - AsLiCo (Italy) Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (Italy) Barbara Minghetti Anne-Kathrin Ostrop Panaghis Pagoulatos Composer: Giovanni Sollima Artistic Director Head of Education Director of Artistic Librettist: Giancarlo De Cataldo Macerata Opera Komische Oper Berlin Coordination & Casting Costume Designer: Elisa Cobello Festival (Italy) (Germany) Greek National Opera Dramaturge: Luis Ernesto Donas (Greece) Set Designer: Chiara La Ferlita Together with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and its Fabbrica YAP, AsLiCo coproduces a new, original opera creation that will address the issue of water contamination. The objective is to trigger a conversation and a call to civic action that can be continued at school and at home, as per their tradition through a participative opera. *(in alphabetical order of lead company) With the support of In collaboration with PUBLIC NOMINEE a private foundation LA FENICE TELLS YOU: A MAGICAL RING BETWEEN GNOMES, GIANTS AND HEROES Fondazione Teatro La Fenice (Italy) Associazione U-MUS (Humanity in Music) (Italy), Conservatorio di Musica Cesare Pollini (Italy), Fondazione Aida (Italy)
Music and Artistic Team: Laura Basso, Luciano Borin, Alex Cerantola, Oscar Chellin, Pino Costalungo and Massimo Pastore
This project is a musical narration freely inspired by Richard Wagner’s Tetralogy, adapted for primary schools. It also includes a workshop dedicated to teachers with practical laboratories. JURY NOMINEES*
LAILA - IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION Finnish National Opera and Ballet (Finland) Sveriges Radio / Swedish Radio - Baltic Sea Festival (Sweden)
Composer: Esa-Pekka Salonen Dramaturge: Paula Vesala S Concept, Design and Development: Ekho Collective (Minja Axelsson, Heikki Heiskanen, Essi Huotari, Olli-Pauli Kilpi, Saara-Henriikka Mäkinen, Joonas Nissinen, Tuomas Norvio and Iina Taijonlahti) Project Management at the FNOB: Lilli Paasikivi, Miia Lallukka, Timo Tuovila and Annastina Haapasaari
Laila will be an interactive opera experience created by composer Esa-Pekka ABOUT Salonen, dramaturge Paula Vesala and Ekho Collective. The work makes bold use of new technologies while extending reality into a mesmerizing and collaborative experience. The FEDORA Digital Prize advocates new ways of artistic expression and access to opera and ballet through digital innovation on and beyond the stage.
MUNKINATION Royal Opera House (United Kingdom) JURY Unity (United Kingdom) Hip Hop Producer and Illustrator: HAM the Illustrator Opera Director: Isabelle Kettle Ditte Feuk Christopher Hampson Renee Hunt Katharina Jeschke Head of Theatre, Opera Artistic Director/CEO Director of Digital Secretary General Munkination is an immersive opera experience which places the audience at the and Dance SVT Drama Scottish Ballet (UK) Platforms and Delivery IMZ International centre of a futuristic adventure story about climate change. The project mixes styles and genres, combining live performance with a distinctive graphic world (Sweden) Sky (UK) Music + Media Centre in virtual reality (VR) and scored with a hybrid of hip hop and opera resulting in a (Austria) radically new sound.
Tod Machover Peter Maniura Laurent Métivier Kent Nagano Composer, Professor Director Head of Audiovisual General Music Director of Music & Media and IMZ Academy Department Hamburg Opera REBOOT Director of the Media (Austria/UK) Paris National Opera Music Director Sadler’s Wells (United Kingdom) AOE (United Kingdom), Shaksfin Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore) Lab’s Opera of the Chair of the jury (France) Orchestre Symphonique Future group de Montréal AOE Artistic Directors : Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Fourmi MIT Media Lab (Germany/Canada) (USA) REBOOT is an exploration of human sensations and how they connect us. This project reimagines the future, examining our anxiety about the impact of new technology on human nature, and considering its potential disruptions to the Ulrich Schrauth Zillah Watson cycle of life, fertility, justice, and ethics. Artistic Director Commissioning Editor VRHAM! Virtual for Virtual Reality Reality & Arts Festival BBC (Germany) (UK) *(in alphabetical order of lead company)
PUBLIC NOMINEE
STREAM&MUSIC Teatro Regio Torino (Italy) With the support of In collaboration with Streamcolors Digital Art Studio (Italy)
Project Manager: Elena Miliani Digital Art Studio: Giacomo Giannella, Giuliana Geronimo, Andrea Boschetto
Stream&Music has three souls inside it; music, image and technological innovation. Using the Stream Machine software, created by Streamcolors and developed based on Epic Games’ Unreal graphics engine, the audience participates in a unique and total artistic experience moving from spectator to co-creator. Three new levels of involvement will change the way of participating in an artistic event taking the experience beyond the single event.